My grandfather always kept a stack of reading material on the floor beside his recliner. Wild West magazines, National Geographic, biographies of Civil War generals, books on history, theology, art and every once in a great while, volumes of poetry, were usually somewhere in the pile. My grandmother was a “stack reader,” too, as was my mother, as is my aunt, as am I.

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The North Central Louisiana Arts Council is pleased to announce a free screening of a local filmmaker’s films. At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Adam Forrester will be presenting two of his short films at the Dixie Center for the Arts: “Eat White Dirt” and “The Stranger.”

“Eat White Dirt” is a short film, which Forrester describes as, “a look at the bizarre and beautiful relationship we have with a particular mineral found in the American South” in a 2015 interview with munchies.vice.com.

The film follows the story of Tammy Wright, a 37-year-old Georgia native, addicted to eating kaolin.

I’ve seen the movie “Field of Dreams” countless times and read W.P. Kinsella’s book “Shoeless Joe,” which the movie is based on, a few times, too, and that line still gets me every time. My breath catches deep in my abdomen and my eyes turn misty every time.
So it should come as no surprise as the movie and book both are on my all-time favorite lists.